Hurricane Melissa has made landfall in Jamaica as a Category 5 storm, tying for the strongest landfalling Atlantic hurricane ...

A fast-developing storm was expected to bring “unprecedented” amounts of rain to several countries, meteorologists said.

Born in Ceylon to a civil servant and cricketer, Gilbert Clyde Roberts was schooled in Barbados, where his uncle was a member of the West Indies cricket squad in the 1910s. In the early 1920s, he ...

The extraordinary discovery of a large, 1,500-year-old Amerindian site on France’s Caribbean island of Martinique has ...

Hurricane Melissa picked up strength as it bore down on Cuba, where it is expected to make landfall Wednesday after ripping a ...

Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Jamaica on Tuesday as a devastating Category 5 storm, tied for the strongest landfalling Atlantic hurricane in history. While the extent of the ...

At number one (by a considerable margin) is Vatican City, a minuscule city-state surrounded by Rome. Dominated by St Peter's Square (pictured) and Basilica, Vatican City is the world’s smallest ...

A downgraded Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Cuba early on Wednesday after ripping a path of destruction across Jamaica, ...

Small, but mighty, these countries are some of the smallest in the world and yet they bring in a surprising number of ...

JP McManus, John Magnier and Dermot Desmond — have sold Barchester Healthcare, the UK’s largest private care home operator, ...

The storm killed about 20 people in Haiti and flooded more than 160 homes. Five bodies were found in Jamaica, and one person ...

Ann "Goody" Glover was an Irish Catholic who moved to Boston - at the time, part of the Massachusetts Bay Colony - with her ...